Special type



Feb. 24, 1931. E} H. SALMON 1,793,721

' SPECIAL TYPE Filed, May 19, 1930 Sheets-Sheetl Feb. 24, 1931. SALMON 1,793,721

SPECIAL TYPE Filed May 19. 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Feb. 24, 1931 il s-EYES EUGENE H. SALMON, OF CQZUIIEBEA, SOUTH CAROLINA srnorrir. TYPE 1 Application May 19,

This invention relates to special type for rue present invention u suction and other cont lOllS obtaining in usual printing operations, such as found, for

instance, in the use 0 large stereotype presses, said type u l two major selectively elated groups of printing or impression faces or characters, letters, numbers, s unbols, hands, pointers or other elements, one group of characters being annuh iy disposed and the other group being disposed radially about the axis of, and encircled by, said annular group; to provide such a type unit wherein one or more of the hands or pointers of the radially disposed group may be changed in radial position with relation to each other and to the numbers, letters or symbols of the annularly disposed group; and to provide such a unit wherein one or more of said hands or pointers of said radially disposed group may be entirely displaced, its place either being left blank or being occupied by a substitute radially extending hand, pointer or symbol. More narrowly considered, important objects are to provide a type unit such as above referred to and comprised of a plurality of separate but interrelated type elements; to provide type unit such as above described comprised of a main frame carrying the annularly disposed series of characters, letters, numbers or s *mbol-s and having a central opening in association with a plurality of separate type elements disposed in said opening and adapted to cooperate with the wall of said opening; and to provide a type unit such as above d scribed and comprising aplurality of radially disposed segments having abutting radial faces, in combination with a divided frame having a central opening defined by an annular wall serving to engage the radial ly outer ends of said segments to squeeze all of said segments radially inward into tight contact.

Obviously, such a type unit may be used not only for actual printing operations, but

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also as a master pattern or die from which 0 take im re-ssions to form therein rubber stamps or metal stamps or printing mats.

in this application I show and describe only several of the more preferred embodiments of my invention simply by way of illust rtion of the practice thereof, as by law required. However, I realize that my inion is capable of many other and differembodiments and that the various del thereof may be modified in a number of --ilerent ways, all without departing from my said invention broadly considered. Therefore, the drawings and description n are to be considered as merely illusfs and no; as exclusive. rimarily the invention is intended for use in printing a clock face in the miost of other printed matter, as, for instance, a store advertisement of a special sale, indicating the'time when the sale starts by the positions f the clocl: hands. However, while primarily intended to print a clock face, the invention is not limited thereto and may be employed in a great many different ways, the annularly disposed and, if necessary, the radially disposed group or groups of symbo illustrated being substituted by others role to the .led use. the accompanying drawings:

1 repre cuts a front elevation of a embodying my invention set up in the center of other type matter, the setup as usual in a conventionally indicated printers chase.

igure 2, a front elevation of said type unit by itself in set-up position, the hands be ing in one selected position; v

Figure 3, a sectional view on the line 373 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows, extending through some adjacent type matter B, such as illustrated in Fig. 1;

Figure l, a front elevation of the minute hand segment, which may have its radially inner end rounded with its front face in the printing plane to simulate the hands shaft and hubs, as illustrated; a

Figure 5, a View similar to Fig. 4 of the hour hand segment;

Figure 6, a view similar to Fig. l whereon the minute and hour hands are superposed and aligned to represent twelve oclock;

Figure 7, a perspective view of the segment illustrated in Fig. 4;

Figure 8, a perspective view of the segment illustrated in Figure 5; V

Figure 9, a front elevation of a blank segment;

Figure 10, a front elevation of a slight modification; and

Figure 11, a front elevation of a further slight modification.

Referring now in detail to the drawings, A designates a conventional printers chase; l3, usual set-up type matter about the special type unit of this invention; C, the usual rules or furniture applied against the adjacent outer edge faces of tie composition of type, and D the usual printers clamps, conventionally illustrated, for locking up the type composition in the chase A in accordance with usual practice.

The special type unit of the specific embodiment illustrated in the first nine views of the drawings consists of sixteen individual specially formed pieces of type, being the two divided frame members 1 and 1 making joint with each other, as at 8, preferably on a straight light disposed to one side of, but close to, the center line of the unit as a whole, and preferably being so located as not to intersect any of the numerals or characters 2 or minute points 3 of the two concentric raised annular series of numbers, marks or symbols 2 and 3 preferably formed inte rally with said frame members 1 and 1, eleven segments l and one each of segments 5, 6 and 7.

Said members 1 and 1 have their opposed faces preferably extending parallel to their common axis and formed to together define a central circular opening concentric with the two concentricradially successively disposed series of symbols 2 and 3 to receive in said opening atot-al of twelve of the segments l, 5 and 6 or l and 7 when the adjacent end portions are in, or substantially in, contact, as at 8, and when said segments are pressed radially inward by said frame members 1 and 1 to be in tight binding contact with the radial faces 9 of the neXt adjacent segment and by their radially inner arcuate face 10 in, or substantially in, contact with the opposed correspondingly formed face portion of the rounded or cylindrical extension 11 of segment 5 or segment 7, as he case may be.

The segment 5 will preferably be formed with a raised circular printing surface 12 prelerably extending over the entire circular area of the rounded or cylindrical extension 11 of segment 5, and with a radially disposed raised printing surface 13 disposed centrally ofthe printing face of said segment 5 and representing the minute hand of a clock.

The segment 6 will be provided with a radially disposed preferably integral raised printing surface 1'-l extending centrally of the printing surface of said block 1 and representing the hour hand of the clock.

The segment 7 v1.1 have a similar radially preferably centrally disposed raised printing face formed to simulate the two clock hands when superposed, as at 12 oclock, said face 15 preferably being very finely grooved along the sides of the minute hand across the hour hand to give ahair line break between the two in the resulting print.

The frame elements 1 and 1 may, and preferably will, be formed with a narr w annu lar raised. printing surface 16 con ie with and immediately outside of the annular series of minute points and with similar annular printing face 1'? disposed between the annular series of numc s or characters 2 to more perfectly reoresent a clock facev The segments 1' will have no raised printing surface, but merely funct n. fillers.

The segments 4 5, 6 and 7 and the frame members 1 and 1 are made of the same standard thickness of standard present-day metal type m tter, with the symbols, characte s. hands. bands or the like 2.3,12.13,1 l, 15,16 and 1'? raised to the standard height of ap pro tely one thirty-second of an inch above ine surface of the respective frame elements 1 and l and segments 5, G and 7 rounded or cylindrical extension. 11 of ment 5, so that special type unit may be set up and used in the midst of, and as a part of. a composition of type, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3.

Preferably the unit as set up will not be more than one and a half to two inches square. preferably less, so that when made on that scale its le gth or width will approximate- .06 ly only one and half to twice its thickness. However. it may. of cours be made in larger sizes with the same thickness and for the sake of clarity I have illustrated herein in 2 to 10 inclusive, size appronimately five and half times as wide it is thick: that is to say, roughly. five inches wide by slightly over nine-tenths of an inch thick. whereas in the smaller size mentioned it would be of the same thickness. but only four-elevenths as wide. illustrated.

Primarily this special type unit is intended for in connection with newspaper ad vertisements of spe ial sales for a limited t me or to start at a special hoe; the purpose being -..ularl.v emphasize the hour when the i c starts. Fig. 1 illustratii g a composition. of type wherein the special type unit is so employed.

In use, assuming that the sale starts nine ocl ck ant the special type .unit is to be set to pr this time. the segment would be set with its minute hand 13 pointing at 12 and the segment 6 would be set with its hour hand 14- pointing at 9 and with its inner end abutting the cylindrical portion 11 o s ment 5 and the stem of hour hand 1 or printing lace 4 would be inserteu v J-l r 1 eta een the segments s on both b and 6.

lVer-e the starting hour to be twe ve oclock, the segments 5 i nd 6 would be ta on out, the segment 7 with its superposed hands pointing at 12 would be substituteo and eleven fill or segments 4 would be employed.

In case the sale were to start t ve after nine the segment 5 with its 13 would be arranged to point slig'l ly be yond one and thesegment 6 with its hour hand 1% to point slightly beyond nine, and so on, according to the actual time of the start of the sale or other time desired to be printed.

f course, if desired, in order to obtain a,

finer or more eXact setting of the hands for five minutes or less intervals twice or three times or four times the number of cone spondingly smaller segments of the same radial length and thickness may be used, or two sizes of filler segments might be used, as is usual practice in the printing art; for instance, or or two of the segments l might be radially divided into four or more segments d, as shown in the modification illustrated in Fig. 11.

In the slight modification illustrated in F 10 the rounded or cylindrical central part 11 is formed as a cylindrical center element 11 separate from the segment 5 or segment 7, as the case may be. Otherwise the construction and operation are the same as in the preferred form.

While I have shown and described a major specific embodiment of the preferred form of my invention, together with several minor modifications thereof, considering my invention in its broader aspects it is not essential that the frame shall be comprised of two separate members, such as 1 and 1, and shall not be integral, nor that there be segments such as 4, 5, 6 and 7, nor that the radially disposed hands or symbols 13, 14 and 16 shall be integral with, or carried by, such thick segments 5, 6 and '7 respectively, it sufficing if the special type unit comprise a structure such as to suit it for incorporation substantially anywhere in the body of a type composition and have two or more relatively selectively disposed groups of printing surfaces, one group being disposed radially and the other group or groups being disposed concentrically about said rat ia-l group, there being provision for adjusting the one group with relation to the other whereby said radial group may selectively point at any one or any two or more of the symbols of the concentrically disposed group or groups of symbols.

I claim:

1. A special type unit consisting of a frame consisting of a plurality'of members hav ing opposed faces adapted to abut and being out out between said abutting surfaces in arcs to together define between them, when their opposed faces are in abutment, an opening, and one of said members having a series of printing surfaces formed on its lower face adjacent to its said arcuate face, in combination with a plurality of interchangeable segmental bloclrs having radially outer end faces and straight radial faces, some of said segmental blocks being provided on their respective lower faces with printing surfaces extending radially outward, said plurality of segmental blocks being adapted to be disposed in said opening to fill the same, and the said opposed arcuate faces of said members being adapted to engage the opposed radially outer end faces of said segmental bloclrs to force said blocks radially inward into tight squeezing contact with each other, t- 1e said frame members and seg mental blocks all being of the same thickness. r

2. A special type unit consisting of a frame consisting of a plurality of members haying opposed faces cut out to together define between them an opening, and said members having together a composite circular series of printing surfaces formed on their lower faces, in combination wi h a plurality of interchangeable blocks having outer end faces adapted to be engaged by said frame members, and side faces adapted to the opposed sioe faces of the next adjacent blocks, one of said segmental blocks being provided on its lower face with a printing surface extendingendwise thereof, said plurality of blocks being adapted tobe oisposed in said opening to fill the same, and the opposed faces of said frame members bein adapted to engage the opposed outer end faces of said blocks to force said blocks inward into tightsqueezing contact with each other.

consisting of a plurality of members having opposed faces cut out-to together define between them an opening, and said members having together a composite series of printing surfaces for eed on theirlower faces, in combination with plural c-y of blocks adapted to be disposed in said circular opening to fill the same, and the opposed faces of said frame members being adapted to engage said blocks to force said blocks inward into tight, squeezing contact with each other, one of said blocks being provided on its lower "ace with an endwise ext-ending printing surface.

f. A special type unit consisting of a frame formed with an opening and having on its lower face a series of printing surfaces about A. special type unit consistingof a frame said opening, in combination with a plurality of blocks adapted to be disposed in said opening to fill the same, and as operatively disposed therein making tight frictional con- 5 tact therewith and with each other, several of said blocks being provided on their lower faces with printing surfaces extending end- Wise thereof.

5. A special type unit adapted for use as part of a type composition as locked up in the usual prin er 5 chase, said lllllb as set up having a smooth rear face lying in the same plane as the rest of the rear face of such com position and having impression faces all lyin in the same plane as the impression faces of the rest of such composition, said unit bei formed with a plurality of selectively related series of impression surfaces, one of said series being disposed concentrically gq about the axis of, and embracing, the other series, and said latter series of impression surfaces extending radially from said axis toward at least one selected individual impression surface of said concentric series.

6. A special type unit adapted for use as part of a type composition as locked up in the usual printers chase, said unit as set up having a smooth rear face lying in the same plane as the rest of the rear face of such com position and having impression faces all lying in the same plane as the impression faces of the rest of such composition, said unit being formed with a plurality of selectively related groups of impression surfaces, one

- of said groups being disposed about the other group, and said latter group comprising an impression surface ext-ending at an angle to all of the individual impression surfaces of said former group.

7. A special type unit adapted for use as part of a type composition as locked up in the usual printers chase, said unit as set up having a rear face lying in the same plane the rest of the rear face of such composition and having impression faces all lying in the same plane as the impression faces of the rest of such composition, said unit being formed with a plurality of selectively related series of impression surfaces, one of said series he ing disposed about the other group, and said latter group of impression surfacesextending from a single point from said axis toward several selected indi *idual impression surfaces of said concentric series.

testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification at Columbia, South Carolina this 17th day of May, 1930.

EUGENE H. SALMON. 

